Scrap-book



(Nomaden E. G. THURP.

SCRAP BOOK.

No. 278,202. Patented May 22,1883,

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,202, dated May 22,1883.

` Application filed January 1l, 1883, (No niodehl Boston, in the countyof Suffolk and State of v Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Scrap-Books, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

In scraplbooks and tiles for letters, bills, Src., as also other booksfor similar purposes, while the back should be filled out and made firm,there should be also a space left between the leaves of the hooksufficient for scraps or sheets of paper to be disposed between them,and, if desired, also attached to them.

This invention relates to securing the results above stated; and to thatend it consists cfa scrap or tile or other similar book having leavesseparately provided at the back edge with at least two, but preferablythree or more, parallel reverse folds, either integral with the leavesor attached thereto in subst-ance, so as to be continuons therewith, andthe leaves at said folds interlocked or connected with each other, andsecured together and to a back-binding, if so desired, all substantiallyas hereinafter described, whereby the leaves making the Y bok at `theirback edges` are filled out and made firm, and at the same time asufficient space left between more or less of the leaves for thereception of the scraps or sheets of paper in connection with which thebook is to be used.

1n the accompanyingr plate of drawings, Figure l is a perspective viewofa leaf having parallel reverse folds at its back edge in accordancewith this invention, which folds are shown as partially opened out.Figs. 2 and are transverse vertical sectional views of a series offolded leaves from their back to their front edges arranged together inaccordance with this invention, but for better illustration shown asopened ont and exaggerated as to their edges or thickness of fold. Fig.t is a transverse sectional view of a book from back to front, havingits leaves folded and such leaves arranged together as particularlyshowu in Fig. 2. ln Fig. 5 is shown a similar sectional view to Fig. 2,but with one less fold of the leaf, as will be hereinafter fullyexplained. Fig. 6 shows leaves folded as in Fig. 5, but arrangedtogether as shown in Fig. 3.

leaf. The leaves U, having folds d, f, andy, are placed (see Figs. 2 and4) with the part l of the body of each lea-f the nearer to the fold d,and the fold (l within and between the folds j' and g of the precedingleaf, and the several folds and leaves, being thus secured and boundmaking in substance a continuance of such together, have between thefirst two contiguous leaves, at the-back edges thereof, the thickness ofthe two folds dandf, and between the third and fourth leaves, and so onto the last leaf, the thickness of three folds, to wit.: two folds, dand j, ,of the lirst leaf in the order of number of each pair ofleaves,and the fold g of the 'leaf preceding the first leaf in saidorder ot' Folded leaves disposed as above numbers. V described are boundtogether at the back and to. a back-binding, B, in anyiof the well-knownmodes, and when so bound, as -is plain to be seen, while the back islled out and made iirm, there is left between any two contiguous lea-vesof the book after the first in order of the book a space, a, (see Fig.4,) equal in substance to three thicknesses of a leaf, said threethicknesses being made up in one of its three parts by the fold g of oneof said contiguous leaves, and in the other two of its three parts bythe two folds d fof the other of said contiguous leaves. These spaces u,left, as aforesaid, betweenA the Vseveral leaves, afford opportunity, asis evident, for the insertion of letters, bills, or paper scraps, &c.,between the leaves, and which may or may not be attached to either oftheadjoining leaves. i

In the disposition shown in Fig. 3 the leaves are folded,and their foldsof the several leaves are placed together in substantially a similarmanner to that shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and which has beenparticularlydescribed, but with this difference, that the leaves cometogether in pairs, and after the first leafand between the surface ofthe second leaf of each succeeding roo pair, which is contiguous to thesurface of the first leaf of the next pair, there is at the back edgesot'such leaves ofthe two adjoining pairs six extra thicknesses of paper,made up in each instance in four of its thicknesses of the folds dandfof the trst ot' the two pairs ot' leaves havingcontiguoussurfaces,asstated, andin the remaining two of' its thicknesses ofthe folds gg ot'the pair ot' leaves directly preceding the said lirst pair of said twopairs of leaves. In other words, this disposition of the leaves consistsin placing the corresponding folds of two leaves within each other, andthen placing such pair ot' leaves having` the folds of each situated inrelation to the other within and between the folds j" and g of anotherpair of -leaves having the folds ofthe one leafl placed in thecorresponding fold of the other leaf', as has been described.

Each lcaf, in accordance with the foregoing` description, has threefolds-to wit, folds (Lf, and g-at its bach edge; but the fold may hedispensed with, and the leaves, with their i'olds (I and j', arranged asis shown in Fig. 5, which isin accordance with the arrangement of thefolds ofthe leaves shown in Fig. 2, except with the fold g out, or asshown in Fig. (i, which is in accordance with the arrangement ot' thefoldsof the leaves shown in Fig. 3, with the same fold, g, out, as abovestated.

In dispensing with the one fold g of the leaves it is plain asubstantially similar result is obtained 5 but, as is obvious, in suchcase greater care would be required to arrange the leaves together thanwould be the case were the leaves provided with the fold g, andtherefore, in view of this, it is not intended to limit this inventionto three folds of the leaves, although such number is preferable to anylesser number, and also to a greater, for apparent reasons. i

The widths of the leaf-folds can be varied to suit different thicknessesof paper used for the leaves, and to have their back edges even, fortheir better binding or being secured in the covers.

Having thus described my invention, what In EDWIN W. BROWN, WM. S.BELLoWs.

